Drain-lid for cooking utensils.



G. STRICKER.

DRAIN LID FOR COOKING UTENSILS. APPLICATION FILED APR. 6. 1914.

1,148,634. Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

OZZWZM ATTORNEY.

ETD ST GERTRUDE STRICKER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

DRAIN-LID ron COOKING u'rEivsILs.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented-Aug. 3, 1915.

AppIication filed April 6, 1914. Serial No. 829,815.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GERTRUDE STRIOKER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county ofJackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Drain-Lids for Cooking Utensils, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to covers for cooking utensils, and the presentinvention relates more particularly to handles for said covers.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive handlefor securely looking a cover in position upon a cooking utensil, so thatthe same can be tipped to drain off surplus boiling water whileretaining vegetables, or other solid contents.

The present invention is an improvement over the device disclosed inUnited States Letters Patent No. 1,089,092, issued jointly to myself andWilliam Stricker, and in order that the present invention may be fullyunderstood, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, inwhich:

Figure l is a plan view of a lid in position upon a stew pan andprovided with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a broken vertical sectionof the stew pan and its lid provided with the invention. Fig. 3 is adetail perspective of a modified form of handle for the cover.

1 designates a stew pan or other cooking vessel having a peripheralflange 2 at its upper margin and a handle 3 of usual form projectingtherefrom.

-l designates a lid or cover for the vessel, said lid or cover being ofthe customary form and having a circular bevel portion 5 and a flatmarginal portion 6 to rest against the flange 2.

7 designates a handle constituting the novel feature of the presentinvention. Handle 7 in its preferred form is made from one piece of wireformed into a longitudinal loop 8, parallel members 9 and 10 connectedwith loop 8, a triangular loop 11 connected with member 9, and a hook 12connected with member 10. The forward end of loop 8 terminates in atransverse shoulder 13 spaced a suflicient distance from the adjacentmargin of the cover 4 to leave a recess 14, so that the loop 8 can beadjusted beneath the handle 8, as disclosed by dotted lines Fig. 1. Thetransverse shoulder 13 passes beneath the member 10 and connects withmember 9, whichis spot-welded or otherwise permanently secured to member10 to increase the rigidity of the handle 7. The forward portion ofmember 9 and the triangular loop 11 are spot-welded or otherwise rigidlysecured to the cover 4, so that considerable upward pressure may beexerted on the handle 7 to firmly hold the cover 4 upon the vessel 1when the latter is tipped to drain boiling water therefrom. Thehook-member 12 extends downwardly and forwardly to engage the undersideof flange 2, as disclosed by Fig. 2, when the cover 4 is in positionupon the vessel 1, and secures said cover upon the vessel when theupward pressure above referred to is applied to the handle 7.

lVhen the cover 4 is adjusted to bring the handle 7 beneath the handle3, the cover 1 can be firmly looked upon the utensil by pressing thehandles 3 and 7 toward each other, thus causing the hook-member 12 toengage the underside of margin 2 which acts as a fulcrum, whereby theupward pressure on handle 7 exerts downward pressure on the cover, sothat the same will be reliably held upon the utensil to retain the solidcontents thereof when it is tipped to drain olf boiling water.

The modified form disclosed by Fig. 3 is similar to the preferred formof handle disclosed by Fig. 1, except that the transverse shoulder 13does not pass beneath the member 10 as in said preferred form. Referringin detail to said modified form, 7" designates the handle which is madefrom one piece of wire bent to form a longitudinal loop 8 parallelmembers 9, 10*, connected with loop 8*, a triangular loop 11 connectedwith member 9 and a hook-member 12 connected with the member 10 As inthe preferred form members 9*, and 10, are, preferably, welded orotherwise rigidly secured together.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is:

The combination with a vessel having a marginal flange and a handle, ofa cover for said vessel having a handle rigidly se- Cured thereto andprovided with a hook member to engage said marginal flange whereby thecover may be held upon the vessel by pressing the handles together whenthe vessel is tilted, the cover handle having a shoulder spaced from themargin of the cover to permit it to pass beneath the vessel handle,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aifiX my signature, in the presence of twoWitnesses.

GERTRUDE STRICKER.

Witnesses:

F. G. FISCHER, R E. HAMILTON.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents Washington, .D. 0.

